Masayoshi Takemura

Masayoshi Takemura
Masayoshi Takemura
武村正義
	Takemura in 1995
59th Minister of Finance
	In office; 30 June 1994 – 11 January 1996
Prime Minister	Tomiichi Murayama
Preceded by	Hirohisa Fujii
Succeeded by	Wataru Kubo
Chief Cabinet Secretary
	In office; 9 August 1993 – 28 April 1994
Prime Minister	Morihiro Hosokawa
Preceded by	Yōhei Kōno
Succeeded by	Hiroshi Kumagai [ja]
Personal details
Born	26 August 1934; Gamō District, Japan
Died	28 September 2022 (aged 88)
Political party	New Party Sakigake (1993–1997)
Other political; affiliations	Democratic Party (from 1997); Liberal Democratic Party (until 1993);
Alma mater	University of Tokyo

Masayoshi Takemura (武村正義, Takemura Masayoshi, 26 August 1934 – 28 September 2022)^[1] was a Japanese politician. Elected as a representative of the Liberal Democratic Party, in 1993 he broke away to form New Party Sakigake, before joining the newly formed Democratic Party of Japan in 1997. He served as Chief Cabinet Secretary and then finance minister in the Murayama Cabinet of the mid-1990s.